Companies like Phoenix Tailings, which recently began producing metal in New Hampshire, are using new processing methods to ...

The manufacturing of metal components often seems like a choice between two extremes. On one side, there is the slow and ...

A groundbreaking new method promises to reshape the way we manufacture nanoscale electronic components. It could offer a faster, cheaper, and more reliable alternative to traditional chip-making ...

Li-Metal, a battery materials company based in Canada, says it has produced lithium metal from lithium carbonate, which reduces the number of steps and harmful byproducts involved in refining lithium, ...

Magrathea’s new electrolyzer can make magnesium using electricity. A California-based company called Magrathea just turned on a new electrolyzer that can make magnesium metal from seawater. The ...

Metal casting transforms molten aluminum into precise, durable components through molds and controlled cooling. This centuries-old process remains vital to modern manufacturing, powering industries ...

Michael D. Bartlett is in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Soft Materials and Structures Lab and at the Macromolecules Innovation Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA.

In a quiet corner of Switzerland, researchers have stopped treating metal like something to be melted and poured, and started treating it like something that can be grown. Instead of blasting powders ...